I always dreamed that someday my offspring would play the piano and/or some musical instrument. This stems from a few different things: (1) I desperately wanted to play the piano but it didn’t work out for me (2) despite not getting to learn the piano, I was able to join the school band (3) music…
Can you believe that Sarah Amelia is 6 and 3/4 months old! Wow – amazing! Last week Sarah’s 6 month well-child check and vaccinations coincided on the same day as the first day of school for Rachel. It would take too much back story to explain the reason that the two big things happened on…
“Mom, it’s great that you love the baby so much, but you need to pay more attention to me”. This was Rachel’s random comment when I was getting stuff ready for the baby this morning. “Well, what should I do?” “You can sit next to me and watch me play this game on the iPad”.…
When people back home ask, “do you live in the city?” I say well, sort-of… For a person that grew up in a town with two caution lights, I don’t have super high criteria for what in fact is a “city”. Not that growing up in a small town is bad, because I think it…
It was tough to think of a song title for this one, because the topic kind of rambles. I thought of Dancing Queen, Tiny Dancer but that was too specific. In terms of a non-song title, it could also be titled – the tale of the purple leotard/summer adventures 2013. This summer has come and…
“What a man, what a man, what a mighty good man!” exclaimed Salt-N-Pepper and EnVogue back in 1990-something. I promised Bryan that I would not post anything silly or embarrassing about him on this blog. I will try to keep that promise, LOL. My husband’s sign is Virgo, which in astrology speak translates into being…
For some reason, God only knows why, Rachel is 7 going on 17 ….. This is a problem. It all started so innocently, and I made excuses. Most of the time it was end of the day whining. “She’s tired” was my common explanation for this, and I am sure that she was exhausted. Sometimes just…
This blog will take a turn for the extremely gooey and over-the-top…. I just realized that Sarah Amelia is almost 6 months old (technically speaking she is 22 weeks old), and it really seems like yesterday that she was born. Her babyhood is going by so quickly. Little Sarah was just dropped into the…
Rachel has ear tubes, and this summer she has had repeated bouts of gross drainage from her ears. Last night her ear was inflamed so badly that Bryan wanted to take her to the ER. After a phone call to the on-call ENT, Bryan realized that this was not an emergency. Since I am so amazing at being in 10 places at…
Well, I have decided to start a blog! For my very first blog – EVER – I have decided to talk about our recent trip to the great state of Kentucky. It was terrific but very short. It had been a long time since we had flown with a baby and were a little bit…